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parenthesis-point

parenthesis-point noun: synonym of parenthesis.

Noun

parenthesis-point (plural parenthesis-points)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of parenthesis.
    • Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9
    Synonyms:
    parenthesis

Synonyms of parenthesis-point

Forms of parenthesis-point

pluralparenthesis-points

Questions about parenthesis-point

What does parenthesis-point mean?
Parenthesis-point means synonym of parenthesis.
What part of speech is parenthesis-point?
Parenthesis-point is a noun.
What is the plural of parenthesis-point?
The plural of parenthesis-point is parenthesis-points.

Words near parenthesis-point in the dictionary

  1. parentheme
  2. parenthemes
  3. parenthese
  4. parentheses
  5. parenthesis
  6. parenthesis-point
  7. parenthesis-points
  8. parenthesise
  9. parenthesised
  10. parenthesises
  11. parenthesising

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